New medical search engine focuses on flu

Posted by: Stephen Baker on October 20

The new health search engine, Healthline, is launching a page to track the spread of the flu in the United States. The flu page, according to the company, will be able to map the contagion , county by county, or even by zip code, using daily input from 6,000 doctors around the country. This is one case where a clear majority of Americans, I’m betting, would rather be living in blue states than red.

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